Senior Program Manager / Program Director

Role Summary

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Program Manager / Program Director – Data, Analytics & Digital Engineering with approximately 20+ years of IT experience and a strong track record of leading complex, large-scale technology and data transformation programs for Banking, Financial Services and Wealth Management clients.

The role requires deep program leadership across Data Engineering, enterprise data platforms, cloud modernization, data warehousing, analytics, reporting, data governance and full-stack application development. The successful candidate will have led 100+ member global delivery organizations and managed vendor transitions, service consolidation, rebadging, knowledge transfer and operating-model transformation.

Recent program leadership involving AWS, AWS Glue and Snowflake is essential. The candidate is not expected to be the solution architect or developer, but must have sufficient technical depth to challenge architecture decisions, identify delivery risks, manage dependencies and communicate credibly with enterprise architects, engineering leaders and client executives.

Candidate Value Proposition

• Enterprise-scale ownership across data, analytics, cloud and digital engineering.
• Executive engagement with CIO, CDO, CTO, business, risk and operations leadership.
• Leadership of complex transitions and transformation programs with measurable business outcomes.
• Opportunity to shape modern data platforms and delivery models for banking and wealth-management clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Large-Scale Program & Delivery Leadership
• Own end-to-end delivery of large, complex Data, Analytics and Digital Engineering programs.
• Lead globally distributed organizations of 100+ team members across multiple workstreams, locations and technology disciplines.
• Establish program governance covering scope, schedule, financials, quality, risks, dependencies, resources and stakeholder communications.
• Manage multi-year transformation roadmaps involving legacy modernization, cloud adoption, platform transformation and application modernization.
• Drive predictable delivery through measurable KPIs, SLAs, milestones, RAID management and executive governance.
• Operate effectively across Agile, Scrum, hybrid and managed-services delivery environments.
• Data & Analytics Leadership

Provide program-level leadership across the full enterprise data lifecycle:

• Enterprise Data Architecture
• Data Engineering and ETL/ELT
• Data Warehousing, Data Lakes and Lakehouse
• Data Quality, Metadata and Lineage
• Master and Reference Data
• Data Governance and Controls
• Business Intelligence and Reporting
• Advanced Analytics
• Cloud Data Platforms
• APIs and enterprise integration
• AWS, Snowflake & Modern Data Platforms
• Lead cloud-based data modernization programs involving AWS, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, Snowflake, SQL and enterprise data platforms.
• Govern ETL/ELT frameworks, APIs, integration services, BI platforms, CI/CD, DevOps and automated deployment practices.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to validate solution direction, non-functional requirements, security, scalability and operational readiness.
• Maintain program-level technical credibility while retaining focus on delivery outcomes, risk and stakeholder alignment.
• Transition, Consolidation & Rebadging Leadership
• Lead vendor-to-vendor transitions for large technology and data portfolios.
• Develop transition strategy, governance, knowledge-transfer and operational-readiness plans.
• Manage incumbent-vendor dependency, knowledge retention and business-continuity risks.
• Lead consolidation of applications, data services, platforms and delivery teams.
• Manage rebadging and workforce transition programs where applicable.
• Establish Day 1, Day 30/60/90 and steady-state operating models, acceptance criteria and stabilization measures.
• Identify opportunities for tool, platform, process and vendor consolidation after transition.

Key Responsibilities continued

• Banking & Wealth Management Domain

Apply strong financial-services experience across relevant business and technology areas, including:

• Retail and Commercial Banking
• Wealth Management and Investment/Portfolio Management
• Client, Advisor, Customer and Account Data
• Transactions, Risk and Compliance
• Regulatory, Financial, Management and Client Reporting
• Digital Banking, Data Privacy and Security
• Enterprise Data Modernization, Governance and Controls
• Full-Stack & End-to-End Technology Delivery
• Govern programs spanning front-end and digital applications, back-end services, APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure and enterprise data platforms.
• Coordinate reporting, analytics, DevOps/CI-CD, testing, quality engineering, production support and operational readiness.
• Ensure application and data workstreams are integrated through common architecture, release management and business outcomes.

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